The Eagleton Reader

by Terry Eagleton (Editor), Stephen Regan

This is the first collection of Terry Eagleton's work for the theatre - St Oscar, The White, the Gold and the Gangrene, Disappearances, and God's Locusts.

Genres: Philosophy

470 pages, Paperback

First published February 11, 1997

About the author

Widely regarded as England's most influential living literary critic & theorist, Dr. Terry Eagleton currently serves as Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster and as Visiting Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was Thomas Warton Prof. of English Literature at the University of Oxford ('92-01) & John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester 'til '08. He returned to the University of Notre Dame in the Autumn '09 semester as Distinguished Visitor in the English Department.

He's written over 40 books, including Literary Theory: An Introduction ('83); The Ideology of the Aesthetic ('90) & The Illusions of Postmodernism ('96).
He delivered Yale's '08 Terry Lectures and gave a Gifford Lecture in 3/10, titled The God Debate.

Reviews

[Pablo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Have not read the book, but I need to correct description. This is an anthology of Eagleton's criticism including reviews, articles and chapter from books to 1997. The book includes sections on lit criticism, cultural and sexual politics, modernity, friends and philosophers , and Ireland.